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Chris McKenna (Joey) with Erika and Jessica Tuck (Megan) at GH.

I thought it would be nice to see Jeremy again sometime for an event too.

If there was one thing David Mendenhall was gonna do in an '80s TV show or movie it was cry his heart out. He was a good actor usually cast in very annoying roles lol. I wouldn't hate seeing him for Lesley's memorial at all. But I would bring on Rick Jr. someday.

They hate her.

He sucks, so no. I'm sure he'll live on in the picture threads I don't read.

Nope. But you have to try.

Oh, not that himbo. I would want to bring on Dillon eventually, but not that bland hunk. You'd have to either lure Scott Clifton back or get someone unique.

Oh man.

I remember an insane rumor in the 2000s that Zander Smith would turn out to be Mikey Webber lol. But he and poor little David Mendenhall (who was a good actor!) were a fan punchline for so long that I think they just have never gone there, in addition to the Webber clan being largely forgotten for many years. I have thought before about bringing on, say, Rick Jr. to sort of fill the hunky doctor mold his father and uncle once did. But never thought of Mike, really. It would make sense for Laura to hold a reunion and have him just make an appearance someday. Maybe for Lesley's memorial.

If you think the mansion is bad, don't look into the current status of the Brownstone from the '80s and '90s. Elizabeth allegedly lives in it but as we've been over in these threads many a time, there is almost no resemblance lol. I guess I'm glad it exists.

I'm just glad the Q mansion isn't totally lathered in gray paint anymore like a few years ago, that they still use the original study/drawing room from time to time (though it would still be the primarily-used meeting space if it was up to me) and that the Quartermaines and their home are once again very prominent on the show as a hub for story and characters. The fact that the foyer barely resembles the original beyond still having a big staircase I can live with.

Gio and Emma are becoming considerably popular IMO. But they haven't been played nearly as much as the Britt saga or Agent Joss of late, which is the problem. Same with Dante and Lulu. But I make this speech twice a week at this point so I'll stop.

It feels like it's largely for CVE plus shoring up Steve's status, and no one else. Maybe Frank getting to luxuriate in staring at Ryan Paevey's oiled pecs and watching Gati be campy again. I don't know.

Just when I was thinking of her for (another) role, lol.

Yeah, like I mentioned above. The account page has since crashed due to people's reactions lol. I think my discount is still in effect til April, but I am not going to stop loading it til I can reach a live agent and confirm it.

This is as about as exciting as he gets.

Hulu is operating at new levels of grime heretofore unheard of lol. They try to switch everyone's plan back to normal pricing the day after that deal and reinstating Kimmel, and suddenly the account/help pages don't work. That's okay, bitch! I'll wait!

I would shoot her in the head next time.

It's just good soap.

She can still act (and proved it when she came back after Lee's death) but I sadly just don't see it happening. She seems committed to the service. GH missed their chance. I'd recast and bring both her and in-limbo Christina (by a new name) back. I also really like Brook Kerr as Portia and always have, especially at the hospital but the show clearly hates her and is tripling down on making her unbearable. Which is ridiculous since she is the best actor in that set of characters. She should be a growing tentpole there and instead she's being assassinated.

KT has never been good at playing vulnerability for long. I've been saying it since 2013. If you try to let her play conventional drama she gets lost, vague/weak and is shallow and boring to watch. Her luckiest break was having major sexual heat with Steve a few years ago, and tbqh I think Steve had something to prove at the time given the stunningly rapid end of Jason and Sam. It's insulting to me that people would think this in any way compares to Carly or Brenda or whoever else and their self-destructive behaviors. Britt has never had a fraction of that writing, those layers or those performances. That's why she's having such a rough ride with the audience, in addition to the show's Rocco angle being stunningly tone-deaf and unpopular. Like, it's starting to give Natalia a bit.

I think there may have been a deb or cotillion reference re: Chelsea or Kat early in the run, but I may be imagining things. I agree there should be more. There's certainly enough key Black creatives in charge, from MVJ to Sheila Ducksworth to most of the dialogue staff.

I don't expect them to blame a chip in her brain or anything sci-fi unless it gets really rough and she starts circling the Natalia drain lol. Which her reentry occasionally reminds me of atm! But I do think some of her behavior re: Rocco, Jason, etc. is being presented onscreen as her 'having defensive walls up' or 'trying to protect them' from her evil employer, so she acts out. What's funny is her sweaty, clearly unsettled fans on social media trying to put all this over as something we should all embrace, when both Kelly and the writing team have never been nearly good enough to rise above this kind of nastiness and make it nuanced enough to work. We're not exactly dealing with Sarah Brown here, and I both hated Sarah's Carly and was fascinated by her in equal measure in the late '90s.

Like I said the other day: By the time they dig into the plot-driven reasons for some (not all) of her doubling down it won't matter to the audience. The Rocco thing they've tried to whitewash is a poisoned chalice in and of itself as well. It doesn't surprise me they overreached, it just surprises me how extreme it's been so quick. Someone in-house (probably CVE based on the vibe I've gotten over the years, but who knows) thinks Britt actually is the fierce gay icon they tried to sweatily reverse-engineer her into, and that all of this is a winning formula. It's not, and the limits of what KT can lift as an actress and screen personality are always apparent when they give her too much.

The irony lies in Monty apparently thinking Eastenders from the UK was the wave of the future, and modeling the working-class Eckert influx around that. She wasn't really wrong about EE, but her approach and execution were way off.